Synchronicity: definition, meaning, and calculation
A synchronicity is a coincidence that strikes you because it means something to you: the same doubled time, a number that keeps coming back. The word comes from the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
By Thomas Guilhot · updated
What you saw · seven families
- Mirror hours
50 times
- Angel numbers
43 numbers
- Personal day
9 days
- Guardian angels
72 angels
- Dreams
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- Spiritual signs
46 signs
- Soul connections
4 connections
A specific time or number: decode a mirror hour an angel number
The method
One time, three readings
Example with 11:11: the digits one by one, the two halves, then the total of the four digits.
- 1. The digits1 · 1 · 1 · 1The same digit four times: the reading emphasizes the 1.
- 2. The two halves11 · 11Two master numbers 11, kept as they are.
- 3. The total1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4The number of the time: here, building.
Where the word comes from
Carl Gustav Jung and the “meaningful coincidence”
The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) called synchronicity the meeting of two events with no causal link, but connected by the meaning they take on for a person. He developed the idea in an essay published in 1952, in a volume shared with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli.
His best-known example: a patient tells him about a dream in which she is given a golden scarab, and, at that very moment, an insect similar to a scarab taps against the window of his office. For Jung, it is not a cause that connects the two, but the meaning the patient finds in it.
Jung presented synchronicity as a hypothesis to describe an experience, not as a proven law. Versana reports these readings without predicting anything: everyone remains free to give their own meaning to what they experience.
Why you notice them
Coincidence or synchronicity?
- 1440minutes in a day
- 50notable times (mirror, reversed, triple)
- 3.5%of the minutes in a day
Selective attention
A doubled time catches the eye; 14:37 goes unnoticed. You notice what forms a pattern.
Confirmation bias
Once you think about it, you remember the 11:11s you saw and forget all the times you looked at the clock without noticing anything.
The meaning you give it
It is this meaning, personal to each of us, that Jung called synchronicity. Numerology can give it a vocabulary, without deciding it.
Frequently asked questions about synchronicities
What is a synchronicity?
A coincidence that strikes you because it means something to you, with no apparent causal link between the events. The word was coined by the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, who developed it in an essay published in 1952.
What is the difference between a coincidence and a synchronicity?
A coincidence is a fact: two things happen at the same time. Synchronicity, in Jung’s sense, adds the meaning you give to that meeting. The same 11:11 can go unnoticed one day and strike you on another, depending on what you are going through.
Is synchronicity scientifically proven?
No. Jung proposed it as a hypothesis to describe a lived experience, not as a proven law. Psychology mainly explains why we notice these coincidences: selective attention and confirmation bias.
Is seeing 11:11 or 222 a message from the universe or the angels?
Many people experience it that way, and that is how the angel number tradition reads it, as reported on each page. Versana leaves you free to find your own meaning: it gives the calculation of the number, what numerology associates with it, and what tradition says. The one thing it does not do is predict an event.
Why does 11:11 give 4 and not 22?
Versana reads a time in three ways: the digits (1, 1, 1, 1), the two halves (11 and 11, kept as master numbers), and the total of the four digits (1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 4). Many sites add up the halves (11 + 11 = 22): that is another convention, not the one used on this site.
What is the difference between a mirror hour and an angel number?
A mirror hour appears on a clock (11:11, 21:12); an angel number is a sequence of repeated digits, seen anywhere (222, 1111). Both are read the same way: you add up the digits.
What should you do when you keep seeing the same time?
Nothing is required. You can note the moment and what you were doing, read the meaning of the number, and see whether it helps you reflect on a situation. A time decides nothing for you.
Can a time announce something negative?
No. No time or number announces misfortune: numerology, as this site presents it, predicts nothing. Each number has strengths and points to watch, never a fate.